Improved dredging, shoe, and pepper-box



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Letters Patent No. 70,613, dated November 5, 1,867. l

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D ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: i Be it known that I, GEORGE W. PUTNAM, of Peterboro, in the county of Madison, and State of New York, i ve invented a new andl improved Dredging and Spice-Box; and I do hereby declare that the following is a x l, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, erence being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification. i The object of this invention is to facilitate the discharge or sprinkling `of spice, salt, pepper, flour, or any diments or other powdered articles of whatsoever nature, and consists simply of lateral perforations in one Ao tu e only of the covering of the vessel containing the powdered material te be sprinkled, whereby the act of inkling or discharging the material from said vessel is easily and conveniently performed by holding the ssel down upon its side, as will be hereinafter set forth.

Figure 1 is a side elevation ofthe vessel, showing lthe perforations or holes.

Figure 2 is an ordinary dredging-box, the same in principle as fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawing, the location of the holes for sprinkling the'material contained in the vessels are shown at s. 1 and 2, andv are locatedvlaterally near the end of the vessel.

In using a vessel provided with perforations in one side only of its cap, the materials .within the vessel may p discharged or sprinkled without completely, or nearly, inverting the same, as is necessary with the perforans as usually placed, and this act of inversion, which the common arrangement of the perforations necessitates, attended with more or less clogging of the material to be sprinkled in and .above the holes intended for its schal-ge. This choking up of said holes is mainly, if not wholly, due to the packing of the material lying mediately at and about the perforations, which packing is caused by the weight of the superincumbent matethe end ofthe cap. In my invention this disadvantage is obviated, as the vessel is not made to discharge it's ntents by holding. it perfectly or nearly vertical, but simply upon its side, or at a slight depression of the perrated end from the horizontal, in which position the contents, exclusive of that portion issuing ont through i e perforations, rest upon the side of the vessel, and their weight does not come upon the perforations, whereby l at portion lying at or near the perforations passes through freely and without choking. Furthermore, the perforated sides of the cap serve as walls to guide the material to theperforations, thusA facilitating and conolling the discharge.

It is not requisite that the side or surface containing the perforations be a strictly cylindrical surface, but practice they may he grouped on the side of anycap or covering, lor on the body of the vessel near its end,

l hen such side or end is approximately continuous with the remaining portion of the vessel, and of such an l ngle with its general axis as to enable the materials to be discharged in the manner as above mentioned.

The general advantages of this improvement have been thus shown, and it has an additional desirable featre in the fact that the materia-tto be sprinkled can be controlled and deposited in the particular place. desired, stead of being scattered about, as in those vessels heretofore known or used.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by `Letters Patent, is- A dredging or spice-box, perforated upon its sides, substantially as herein shown and. described.

GEORGE W. PUTNAM. Witnesses:

WM. F. MeNAMAnA, ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

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